Ted Sider
Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
Books
Textbooks
Work in progress
- Accept No Substitutes: Against Best-system Theories without Naturalness
- Plenitude and Derivative Ontology
- A textbook on philosophy of mathematics
- Second edition of Logic for Philosophy
Articles
- Higher-order Metametaphysics
- 3D in High-D
- The New Collapse Argument against Quantifier Variance
- Dasgupta's Detonation
- Ground Grounded
- Asymmetric Personal Identity
- Ross Cameron's The Moving Spotlight
- Comments on Saul Kripke's Philosophical Troubles
- Substantivity in Feminist Metaphysics
- On Williamson and Simplicity in Modal Logic
- Nothing Over and Above
- Outscoping and Discourse Threat
- Consequences of Collapse
- Hirsch's Attack on Ontologese
- Symposia on Writing the Book of the World
- Against Parthood
- The Evil of Death: What Can Metaphysics Contribute?
- Williamson's Many Necessary Existents
- Monism and Statespace Structure
- Against Vague and Unnatural Existence: Reply to Liebesman and Eklund
- Yet Another Paper on the Supervenience Argument against Coincident Entities
- Ontological Realism
- Temporal Parts
- NeoFregeanism and Quantifier Variance
- Vague, So Untrue (with David Braun)
- Parthood
- Against Monism
- "Bare Particulars"
- Kripke's Revenge (with David Braun)
- Quantifiers and Temporal Ontology
- Traveling in A- and B- Time
- Another Look at Armstrong's Combinatorialism
- Precis of Four-Dimensionalism, and Replies to Critics
- What's So Bad about Overdetermination?
- Reductive Theories of Modality
- Against Vague Existence
- Maximality and Microphysical Supervenience
- Locations (with John Hawthorne)
- Time Travel, Coincidences and Counterfactuals
- Hell and Vagueness
- The Ersatz Pluriverse
- Maximality and Intrinsic Properties
- Criteria of Personal Identity and the Limits of Conceptual Analysis
- The Stage View and Temporary Intrinsics
- Recent Work on Identity Over Time
- Simply Possible
- Global Supervenience and Identity across Times and Worlds
- Presentism and Ontological Commitment
- Critical Study of Michael Jubien's Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference
- Four Dimensionalism
- On the Paradox of the Question
- A New Grandfather Paradox?
- All the World's a Stage
- Intrinsic Properties
- Naturalness and Arbitrariness
- Sparseness, Immanence, and Naturalness
- Three Problems for Richard's Theory of Belief Ascription
- Sorensen on Unknowable Obligations
- Van Inwagen and the Possibility of Gunk
- Asymmetry and Self-Sacrifice
- In Defense of Global Supervenience (with R. Cranston Paull)
- Tooley's Solution to the Inference Problem
- Might Theory X Be a Theory of Diminishing Marginal Value?
Teaching
- * = graduate course
- Fall 2024
Applied symbolic logic - Spring 2024
Foundations of mathematics (set theory), Seminar on Fundamentality in Science and Metaphysics* (with Barry Loewer - Fall 2023
Philosophy of mathematics - Spring 2023
Intro philosophy - Fall 2022
Logic for philosophy*, Introduction to metaphysics - Spring 2022
Philosophy of time*, Third-year seminar* - Spring 2021
Metaphysics: Ontology - Fall 2020
Foundations of mathematics (set theory), Proseminar* - Spring 2020
Higher order metaphysics* - Fall 2019
Intermediate Logic 1, Philosophy of mathematics - Spring 2019
Intermediate Logic 1 - Fall 2018
Intro philosophy, Seminar on "The Nomological"* (with Jonathan Schaffer) - Spring 2018
Seminar on structuralism in the metaphysics of science* - Fall 2017
Intro philosophy, Applied symbolic logic - Spring 2017
Intro philosophy - Fall 2016
Seminar on quantum mechanics*, Introduction to metaphysics - Spring 2015
Foundations of mathematics - Fall 2014
Proseminar*, Logic for philosophy* - Spring 2014
Seminar on modality* (with Karen Bennett) - Spring 2013
Seminar on ground* - Fall 2012
Intro philosophy, Logic for philosophy* - Fall 2011
Seminar on properties* - Spring 2011
Philosophy of language - Fall 2010
Mind & Language seminar* - Spring 2010
Modal logic - Fall 2009
Proseminar* - Spring 2009
Metaphysical structure* - Fall 2008
Logic for Philosophy* - Spring 2007
Philosophically useful logic*, Intro logic - Fall 2006
Proseminar* - Spring 2006
Metaontology* - Fall 2005
Applied symbolic logic, Set theory* - Spring 2005
Metaphysics, Intro logic - Fall 2004
Philosophically useful logic*, Modality* - Spring 2004
Persistence*, Applied symbolic logic - Spring 2003
Intro logic - Fall 2002
Mathematical logic*, Metaphysics - Spring 2002
Metaphysics* - Fall 2001
Abstract entities*, Ontology - Spring 2001
Propositional attitudes*, Mathematical logic* - Spring 2000
Intro logic, Convention and Modality* - Fall 1999
Philosophy of language*, 20th century philosophy - Spring 1999: Intro logic, Intro philosophy (honors)
- Fall 1998
Persistence and parthood*, Modal logic*
Conferences
Reviews
- André Gallois, Occasions of Identity
- Charles Chihara, The Worlds of Possibility
- Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies
- Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons
Crash courses
- Crash course on spatial structure
- Crash course on naturalness
- Crash course on higher-order logic
- Crash course on natural necessity
- Crash course on quantities and measurement theory
Unpublished
- Slightly Rising Declaratives
- Beyond the Humphrey Objection
- Dissertation: Naturalness, Intrinsicality, and Duplication
Bibliographies (mostly old)
LATEX
Rutgers University, Department of Philosophy, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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